Quotes About Persistence

Robust activity on one site is so much better than halfhearted activity on multiple sites.

You don't get to where you are by just sitting on your butt and expecting it to come.

Any success I have had has not happened overnight; the journey has never felt like me sitting in the back of a limousine sipping champagne. It has always been more like riding up a hill on a pushbike, and the chain has come off.

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?

Two days later I got a call that they wanted to try out the character for seven episodes. Eleven years and 22 Emmys later, Cliff was still sitting at that bar.

I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.

You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

I feel like the situations you go through, they make you who you are and there's clearly no quit in me.

I've been doing stand-up just about every night since I started in 1989. It's my home base. But I'm into doing comedy in all mediums, platforms and situations.

I remember when I started climbing more seriously. That was when I was six years old.

The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

I did 32 years of political cartoons, one every day for six days a week, I wrote and drew every word, every line. That body of work is the one I'm proudest of.

I work on one book at a time. And yes, I am immersed. Six days a week for four to six hours a day. In between books, I stop writing for as much as two to three months, but during that time, I do research and think, plot and plan the book.

It's absolutely chilling to think that I've been working on a comic-book series called 'Optic Nerve' since I was sixteen.

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

It took me sixteen years to write.

Between sixteen and eighteen, I was singing anywhere I could, in bars or down at the pub.

For many records, everyone was like, 'Oh, this next record is going to be their last, blah, blah, blah.' But here we are on our sixth full-length studio album and we debut at No. 16. It's obvious we're not going anywhere.

One thing that I always loved about, say, 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', is that Indiana Jones gets the Ark of the Covenant about sixty percent of the way through the movie. And then the rest of it is get-out-alive. To me, that's really cool. Because he's the one you care about at the end of the day.

Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.